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The Tudors are hot! The tumultuous Tudors have taken the stage in movies (The Other Boleyn Girl), a popular TV series (The Tudors), and in Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall. The Fifth Queen features some of the same characters as Wolf Hall but at a later period, focusing on the idealistic Katharine and the Machiavellian Cromwell as they bring about each other's downfall. A neglected masterpiece: A. S. Byatt argues that The Fifth Queen has been unfairly dismissed as mere historical fiction, when in fact it is a brilliant investigation of the machinations of power and fear as they operate not only in the intrigue-filled Tudor Court but in our own world. Ford also brings the physical, visual world of the Tudors majestically to life, along with the intricate plotting and counter-plotting that made so many heads roll, and his characterisations of Katharine, Henry, and Cromwell are unforgettable.
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"Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception." --
Joseph Conrad "The best historical romance of this century." --The Times Literary Supplement (London) "The Fifth Queen is a magnificent bravura piece." --Graham Greene
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Joseph Conrad "The best historical romance of this century." --The Times Literary Supplement (London) "The Fifth Queen is a magnificent bravura piece." --Graham Greene
Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873. In 1919 he changed his name to Ford Madox Ford in honour of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written. Ford was well-known for both his fiction and his criticism. He founded two influential journals, The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Review in 1924, in which he championed many of the leading modernist writers of the day. His most famous novels include the tetralogy Parade's End and The Good Soldier, which are still ranked among the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Ford died in 1939, at age sixty-five, in France.
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- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0307744914
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